skb_copy_ubufs(9)

skb_copy_ubufs9

Copy userspace skb frags buffers to kernel

Usage

int skb_copy_ubufs(struct sk_buff * skb, gfp_t gfp_mask);

Arguments

skb

the skb to modify

gfp_mask

allocation priority

Overview

This must be called on SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY skb. It will copy all frags into kernel and drop the reference to userspace pages.

If this function is called from an interrupt gfp_mask must be GFP_ATOMIC.

Returns 0 on success or a negative error code on failure to allocate kernel memory to copy to.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 8
  2. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.